The growing popularity of home schooling is the latest sign of parental frustration with the schools their kids attend--and, as TIME noted in a 1980 cover story, with the beleaguered TEACHERS trying to educate them:
Many teachers have come to see themselves as casualties in a losing battle for learning and order in an indulgent age. Society does not support them, though it expects them to compensate in the classroom for racial prejudice, economic inequality and parental indifference. Says American School Board Journal managing editor Jerome Cramer: "Schools are now asked to do what people asked God to do." The steady...
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